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Thursday, 8 January 2015

Off duty cop kidnaps woman from jail, drives her to his house 'for personal relationship'

© Unknown A police officer was recently found to have acted "inappropriately" after he pulled over an intoxicated Native American woman, and then drove her to his house to have a "personal relationship" with her.The Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer was disciplined, and given seven days off off work without pay. The Canadian CBC News reported that adjudication documents said that "RCMP Const. Kevin Theriault took an intoxicated woman he had...

The Economist 2015 cover is filled with cryptic symbols and dire predictions?

The reputed magazine The Economist published an issue named "The World in 2015″. On the cover are odd images : A mushroom cloud, the Federal Reserve in a game called "Panic" and much more. © The Vigilant Citizen I wouldn't normally dedicate an entire article analyzing the cover of a publication, but this isn't any publication. It is The Economist and it is directly related to the world elite. It is partly owned by the Rothschild banking family of...

'American Sniper' portrays remorseless killer as a hero?

© The InquisitrBradley Cooper as Chris Kyle. Clint Eastwood's newest film, has been heavily criticized for altering the true history of the source material to make the movie more suitable for American audiences. is based on the memoir of Chris Kyle, a former U.S. Navy Seal from Texas, who was deployed to Iraq in 2003.Kyle admits in his own memoir that he enjoyed the act of killing people, which he claims to have done 255 times. Meanwhile, the movie...

Super-massive black hole pair on course for cosmic collision

In a galaxy far, far away, a pair of supermassive black holes appear to be spiraling together toward a cosmic collision of unimaginable scale, astronomers said on Wednesday.The final act of this mating dance, perhaps a mere million years from now, could release as much energy as 100 million of the violent supernova explosions in which stars end their lives, and wreck the galaxy it is in, said S. George Djorgovski of the California Institute of Technology.Most...

Prison to Table: Whole Foods exploits wage loopholes to increase profits

© Steve Rhodes/FlickrWhole Foods workers participate in a Fight for 15 strike, July 31, 2013 It's not clear what shocked people most about the report in that Whole Foods Market sells goat cheese and tilapia prepared with prison labor - the horrendous exploitation of prisoners for a base rate less than one-tenth of Whole Foods' starting wage, or the fact that even after paying prisoner-workers sixty cents an hour, that tiny wheel of goat cheese still...

Additional footage of Tamir Rice shooting shows 14-year old sister tackled and restrained

© RT Police tackled and restrained the teenage sister of 12-year-old Tamir Rice when she rushed to her dying brother after a Cleveland, Ohio cop fatally shot the boy in November, according to newly released video footage of the now notorious incident.The Cleveland Police Department shared the 30-minute recording on Wednesday night, lending credence to claims made by the Rice family about how law enforcement acted in the immediate aftermath of the...

New antibiotic found in Maine soil proves effective against drug-resistant bacteria

© William Fowle/Northeast UniversityA previously uncultured bacterium, Eleftheria terrae, makes teixobactin, a new antibiotic. Researchers may have found a new antibiotic that bacteria will not become resistant to for decades, according to a new study. The discovery came not in a lab, but in soil from Maine, using a little-known device that's "generating excitement."Dr. Kim Lewis, director of Northeastern University's Antimicrobial Discovery Center,...

Medical fascism: Supreme Court rules teen cannot refuse chemotherapy. What does this mean for the future?

© unknown How can any American living here in the supposed "land of the free" honestly believe we still are?The Connecticut Supreme Court has now ruled that yes, the government has the power to force a minor to undergo chemotherapy treatments even if she doesn't want to. That's right. The court has unanimously determined that a 17-year-old patient cannot refuse chemotherapy treatment, even if her mother agrees they want to seek alternative treatment,...

'Special administrative measures' keep Boston bombing suspect gagged

© James LeGros Were accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev imprisoned in another country and barred from speaking to the outside world, he'd doubtlessly be described as "being held incommunicado."Yet since he's an accused terrorist being held in the United States, the Justice Department-ordered gag on him has barely been noticed. And were anyone to ask why he's forcibly been kept silent, they'd be told he's been subjected to "Special Administrative...

Father charged with murder for throwing 5-year-old daughter off bridge

© WFTS A Florida man driving toward a bridge over Tampa Bay pulled his car over early Thursday, took his 5-year-old daughter from the back seat, pressed her head to his chest, and tossed her over the rail, according to police in St. Petersburg.John Nicholas Jonchuck, 25, faces first-degree murder charges. His daughter, Phoebe, fell about 60 feet over the Sunshine Skyway bridge into the bay just after midnight, St. Petersburg police Chief Anthony...

US: Alabama breaks cold record from 1886

© Mike Kittrell/AL.comIce forms on vegetation in a pond Thursday morning, Jan. 8, 2015, in midtown Mobile, Ala. Thursday morning Mobile was at 17 degrees, beating the 1886 record of 18 degrees, however the freezing temperatures should rebound by mid-morning according to the National Weather Service.The area will have a hard freeze warning until 10 a.m., as many areas are in the upper teens to low 20s along the coast, according to Eric Esbensen with...

Netanyahu perp-walked to the Hague? We can only dream!

At the weekend, Fatah posted an image on its Facebook page of Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu next to a hangman's noose, alongside the words 'coming soon' and the scales-of-justice logo of the International Criminal Court in the Hague.This is certainly how many Palestinians would like to view Netanyahu's fate over the coming months. Last week, Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, reluctantly signed on to the Rome Statute, paving the...

GMO's: Setting the record straight

Michael Specter's story in The New Yorker about Dr. Vandana Shiva's work to protect public health from the effects of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) skewed the facts and fell short of the magazine's usually high standards for fairness.In the piece published in the August 20th issue (and in a subsequent podcast on The New Yorker's website), Specter makes it clear that he does not approach the topic simply as a journalist, but also as a strong...
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